EURO 2024 – Head coach Dragan Stojkovic press conference Augsburg 21.06.2024 (photo gallery)

The coach of the Serbian national football team, Dragan Stojković Pixi, decided completely unplanned to appear today in front of the media at EURO 2024.

No surrender, let’s go from the end. Are they better? They are not better. I don’t admit it and I don’t accept it. So that’s it. We had training this morning and the players did their part and the players who didn’t play were on the field. Tomorrow is a day off, so they will be able to be with their family. The training is planned to be in the Bayern camp, but the assessment is that we should stay here and train at 11 o’clock so that we can go to Munich in peace and prepare for the decisive match. Thanks for the questions and trust me. You have to believe, you have to support us because we believe.

There were other circumstances then, that we are not coming back, what makes me happy is that apart from this with Kostić, we have no health problems, everyone is ready, everyone is training, so it gives me satisfaction, confidence, that I can count on all of them , that I will determine the team that will start, that I will make decisions about who goes in, who goes out… As for this match, let’s go for the win, what else did you think? I’m just saying, they didn’t fall from Mars, they’re not flying people, so we can’t go with them. We decide about ourselves, I like that, that’s it. We don’t expect anything, I love being in this situation, that we do what we can. And, be sure that we will leave the last drop of blood and sweat there on the field in Munich in the Arena, in order to reach the goal and the players know that. There is no other, nor can there be.

We have come to a situation where we are deciding our fate in the last game. You have to beat someone if you want to move forward. This is no longer a question of authority, if you were with us every day and you watched what and how we do, how we send messages to the players, then you would understand what I am telling you. I have to give good information and directions to the players and motivate them in the best way, and if they want it, I take my hat off. No one is walking around, no one is complaining, from that point of view I am totally satisfied because we are a healthy group that will give the maximum.